{"id":487,"date":"2011-07-03T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T21:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=487"},"modified":"2011-07-03T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:11:17","slug":"this-is-only-a-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/07\/this-is-only-a-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Only a Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My patience level doesn&#8217;t often allow me to get terribly engaged in online video of much length. That said, this fun little production piece, designed to showcase a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redgiantsoftware.com\/news\/featured\/plotdevice\/\">video editing software<\/a>, didn&#8217;t lose me for even a second. For those trying to enjoy the holiday weekend without an excess of online distraction, I still think it&#8217;s worth the time investment.  And for those hiding from a family picnic in an upstairs bedroom, it&#8217;s entertaining enough to watch twice! Be sure not to miss the extra scene after the credits. Some moments of the plotline stereotyping work better than others, but the &#8220;hipster flirting&#8221; @ 5:30 is so pitch perfect it could carry the entire video if it had to. Gha! They even hit the soundtrack dead center.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24320919?portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/07\/03\/plot-device-a-filmma.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it&#8217;s tightly edited, free to watch, and (if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/transformers_dark_of_the_moon\/\">what I&#8217;ve been reading<\/a> is true) better than what&#8217;s on screen at the cineplex right now. Why go see a summer blockbuster when you could make your own this holiday weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My patience level doesn&#8217;t often allow me to get terribly engaged in online video of much length. That said, this fun little production piece, designed to showcase a bit of video editing software, didn&#8217;t lose me for even a second. For those trying to enjoy the holiday weekend without an excess of online distraction, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}